GS Note: I'm doing this on a bit of a request from kit, who was kind enough to fix my Chinese without screaming that I was stupid. So, this is a thank you!! I'm gonna fix that, no worries! I just have a very cheap book, lol.

A Tale of Rocky Love

"Is she still following us?" Merian asked in a happy tone. A tense smile was pasted on her face and her eyes flashed irritably at her partner. Wufei winced at her gaze and snuck a glance over his shoulder.

"Yes," he switched to Chinese, his head hurting from having to keep his tone down so their stalker wouldn't hear him.

"I am getting very tired of your little tag-a-long," Merian followed his example, her teeth gritted. "Why won't you just let me break her nose? Or perhaps she won't find you as pretty if your was broken too?"

"Then I suppose you won't find me as pretty," Wufei almost chuckled. "She'll lose interest eventually. I hope."

The stalker, peeked at Wufei as she trailed about ten feet behind the couple. Her ears heard their voices despite the large hat she had pulled over her head to hide her shockingly red hair. A brown trench coat was pulled up high and her eyes were covered with overly large sunglasses. She held a newspaper under her elbow. Mariemaia silently snickered at her own cunning. They would never suspect that she was following, this was brilliant!

"Wufei," Merian said, her tone sickly sweet as she kept up speaking in her first language. "Please?"

"Maybe she'll leave us when we get to the theatre."

There was no such luck. The town theatre was an old one. Manual letter signs with flashing lights jutted out of the top of the two story building. There were only two movies playing that night. It was a short line, as most people went to the bigger cities and the bigger cinemas to watch movies now. That was fine with Merian and Wufei though. They bought tickets to one of the movies starting in a few minutes. It took only another minute to get popcorn and two pops. (I think that's soda to you Americas :P ) They had settled into seat near the middle, when their younger pursuer came in and settled down in the back row, her newspaper up to cover her face. If one looked closely, tow eye holes were cut through it so the reader could look out.

The credits started a few minutes later, but both the teens were tense in their seats. It was an old, sappy chick flick with a sad plot and cheap slapstick. Wufei and Merian had deliberately chosen this film because they had had no intention of actually watching it. But now that they had someone watching their movements, they sat stiffly, like they were on their first date again.

"Oh Reginald," the big-breasted heroine crooned at the man. "You were fabulous! You saved my life, how ever shall I repay you?"

"I can think of several ways," the handsome, blonde haired, big muscled man smiled at the audience with sparkling white teeth and winked. The heroine swooned against his arm, pressing her body on his. The screen went blank and silent for a moment before the end credits started to roll, a tacky love song playing in the background.

Merian glowered as she stood up and Wufei sighed, stealing a glance back at their little watcher. Mariemaia was crying and dabbing her eyes with her coat collar. She had liked the movie he supposed. But now was their chance.

"Come on," Wufei whispered urgently. "She not looking!"

Merian's face split into a grin and the two Chinese teens stealthily hid behind an older couple as they left the theatre. Out of the door and out of sight, they darted off, suppressing laughter. Once out side in the cool night air, they ran down the street and ducked into a ark alcove on the side of the building. There Merian peeled out in laughter and Wufei chuckled with her.

"Do you think she'll find us?" Wufei whispered smiling.

"I hope not!" Merian wiped her tears away and looked up, her face finally bright for the first time since Wufei had picked her up. Wufei couldn't help it, he leaned over and planted a light kiss on her lips before pulling away.

Merian wrapped her arms around his neck with a mischievous sparkle in her eyes and pulled him back, their lips meeting for a longer time. Wufei ended up being pushed back against the brick wall by Merian as she began to dominate the kiss. Both were acutely aware of people at the end of the dark corner, so adrenaline was running high. Wufei pulled her in closer as he started to deepen the kiss.

Footsteps dangerously close to their hiding place made them jump apart. There, at the end of the opening, was their trench coat-clad chaperone. The younger girl looked around, confused and disappointed before moving away from the opening. Wufei and Merian both let out a breath they didn't know they had been holding.

They waited a few more minutes before sneaking out of the alley and into the semi-populated street. A few people looked at them curiously as they walked by but most disregarded them. They managed to get to the small park by Maxwell church without being discovered and sat on the bench there.

It was dark, the moon was out already and the streetlights were on. It was also getting cold out, but Merian didn't care. Wufei, however, wrapped his arms around himself and his teeth chattered. Merian watched for a second, fascinated and wondered what would happen if his tongue got in the way of his teeth before reaching over and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He gratefully sunk into her warmth.

"You know, most people wonder who wears the pants in this relationship," Merian chuckled as Wufei ran his hands up her sweater and on her stomach to warm them.

"Sh-sh-shut up," he shivered and buried his face in her shoulder. Merian kissed the top of his head with a smile.

Meanwhile, the tenth grade dejectedly went back to her house. Her mother looked at her, surprised at her disguise.

"Mariemaia! Where were you?"

"Chasing my warrior prince, mother," Mariemaia said and turned her eys up dramatically to the kitchen light.

"Next time remember to be back by nine!"

"Yes ma'am."